Today's Child: Preparing for the 'Just Society' One Family at a Time
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Abstract
Canadians experience the critical national question of plural persona close to home. Perennial negotiation of multiple identities finds particularly intimate expression in the course of adoption. Girls and boys, men and women involved in the adoption circle face complicated, often contentious, questions of allegiance and obligation. Although adoption's dilemmas are conventionally regarded as private, they bear revealing comparison with significant matters of state, namely the articulation of national identities. In the 1960s, children appearing for adoption in the Today's Child column in the Toronto Telegram, one of North America's large urban dailies, suggested that some English-speaking Canadians were reconsidering families at much the same time as Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau asked them to embrace 'the Just Society.' Today's Child provided one test of just how far Canadians had to go before they could realize that ideal. Les Canadiens c�toient quotidiennement des personnes � nationalit�s multiples, qui font l'objet d'un d�bat national essentiel. Cette �ternelle n�gociation entre les multiples identit�s prend une forme toute particuli�re dans le cadre d'une adoption. Les filles et les gar�ons, ainsi que les hommes et les femmes touch�s par une adoption sont aux prises avec des questions difficiles, souvent controvers�es, relativement aux all�geances et aux obligations. M�me si les dilemmes associ�s � l'adoption sont habituellement jug�s du domaine priv�, leur comparaison avec des d�bats sociaux importants, notamment l'articulation de l'identit� nationale, est �loquente. Dans les ann�es 1960, la publication d'annonces sur les enfants disponibles pour l'adoption dans la chronique � Today's Child � du Toronto Telegram, un des principaux quotidiens en Am�rique du Nord, permet de croire que certains Canadiens anglophones remettaient alors en question ce qui constituait une familiale appropri�e. Au m�me moment, le premier ministre lib�ral Pierre Elliott Trudeau leur demandait d'�pouser la cause de la � soci�t� juste �. La chronique � Today's Child � a �t� l'un des tests qui ont servi � d�terminer jusqu'o� les Canadiens devaient aller avant de se rendre compte que la � soci�t� juste � s'annon�ait comme le leitmotiv de la nation moderne, � l'aube de son deuxi�me si�cle.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".